Re: [expert] Write to ext3 data partition
On Tue, 29 Jul 2003 10:22 pm, Anne Wilson wholly or partly mentioned :- /dev/hda6 /mnt/slack ext3 defaults 0 2 /dev/hde7 / ext3 defaults 1 1 /dev/hdf1 /mnt/Mdk9_0 ext3 user,defaults 1 2 is from my fstab. snip Thanks Anne, The Slackware partition boots through Mandrake and is not a problem. I expect it to mount as root, and actually prefer it that way. It is the other two that won't allow me to read or write anything to them. But will experiment some more. Getting this organised and learning how it works will just keep me a little longer from an all Linux native box. Though I can format them as FAT32 it isn't really what I want.Like everything a little more time and perseverance. I will also do as James suggested and experiment with setuid. It is all interesting, and just when I thought that I had sufficient knowledge to go all Linux? It must be a bit like humility, once you think you have it, you have lost it. Charlie. -- The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Northrop Frye This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 01:50 am, Jan Wilson wholly or partly mentioned :- hdf is the old drive, and to be ignored. Only half of hde is partitioned and used at present. I think it is an 80GB drive Jan, according to the above. -- The simplest questions are the hardest to answer. Northrop Frye This email is guaranteed to be wholly Linux Mandrake 9.1, Kmail v1.5 and OpenOffice.org1.1Beta Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Question on kernels and Mach64
I've a question that I would guess is for Thomas Juan or Vincent. But if anyone knows the answer I'd like to know it. Just for fun I've been playing around with the video drivers for the chipset on my laptop. Rage-Mobility M/P AGP 2x Now this used to be supported with hardware 3D... So I've been kinda wondering why it doesn't work anymore. So looking at /var/log/XFree86.0.log I noticed that it was trying to load drm and dri but. it couldn't because kernel module mach64 wasn't available. [drm] failed to load kernel module mach64 Thinking that I'd screwed up I started looking and noticed that sure enough the code is in the kernel source (currently 25mdk) but that there is no mention in my .config of mach64 nor in the config file from MDK. make xconfig nor make menuconfig offer any way I can see to make the module either. What I was wondering is. Has this been removed from being built intentionally? Or is something else missing that I am not bright enough to see? Finally anyone know how to enable the building of this module? James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:57 am, Jack Coates wrote: On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 11:54, Anne Wilson wrote: On Tuesday 29 Jul 2003 4:50 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030729 09:20]: I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. My current situation is FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hde7 5.9G 5.3G 288M 95% / /dev/hde5 5.9G 2.7G 3.3G 46% /Data /dev/hde6 5.7G 452M 5.3G 8% /Graphics /dev/hde81012M 7.7M 953M 1% /boot /dev/hde105.8G 33M 5.5G 1% /holding /dev/hde9 9.7G 4.5G 5.3G 47% /home /dev/hdf1 5.3G 3.3G 1.8G 65% /mnt/Mdk9_0 /dev/hdf6 3.9G 2.2G 1.7G 57% /mnt/OldData /dev/hdf7 6.7G 5.0G 1.7G 75% /mnt/OldHome /dev/hde1 3.9G 1.8G 2.2G 46% /mnt/windows ... looking at this more closely, what I would do is: telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ umount /holding vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. mount /usr telinit 5 Then see if everything still works. If it does, telinit 1 umount /usr rm -rf /usr/* mount /usr telinit 5 holding is slightly smaller than /, but I could make a new partition, say 10GB and then do something similar. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba probs again
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 02:29, James Sparenberg wrote:
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 15:21, Richard Bown wrote:
Hi James
You were right something was using the port.
Well for the moment there's no contention for smbd , but nmbd is still
producing
Jul 30 09:23:23 gb7tf nmbd[5254]: [2003/07/30 09:23:23, 0]
libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(756)
Jul 30 09:23:23 gb7tf nmbd[5254]: Packet send failed to
192.168.1.255(138) ERR NO=Operation not permitted
AS pointed out by Todd the strace I provided forked and the forked
process was'nt shown.
So I've used strace -f nmbd -D and it big and its stuck in a loop.
Next step try to redirect the output straight to a file
ie. strace -f nmbd -D {filename}
checked the file content and nothing.
so checked the sysntax with ls -l fred
This worked !
I'm getting mega confused here.
To make matters worse I've notice ntpd failed to send to an address with
the same error
ERR NO=Operation not permitted
If shorewall is stoppped the same happens, msec is set to high
Have I run foul of msec ???
Ideas please
TIA Richard
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Re: [expert] Making space
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:57 am, Jack Coates wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030729 09:20]: I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. My current situation is FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hde7 5.9G 5.3G 288M 95% / /dev/hde5 5.9G 2.7G 3.3G 46% /Data /dev/hde6 5.7G 452M 5.3G 8% /Graphics /dev/hde81012M 7.7M 953M 1% /boot /dev/hde105.8G 33M 5.5G 1% /holding /dev/hde9 9.7G 4.5G 5.3G 47% /home /dev/hdf1 5.3G 3.3G 1.8G 65% /mnt/Mdk9_0 /dev/hdf6 3.9G 2.2G 1.7G 57% /mnt/OldData /dev/hdf7 6.7G 5.0G 1.7G 75% /mnt/OldHome /dev/hde1 3.9G 1.8G 2.2G 46% /mnt/windows ... looking at this more closely, what I would do is: This is /exactly/ how I'd do it as well. I'll just expand on a few details of Jack's excellent methodology, for clarity's sake. telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ umount /holding vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. mount /usr Note that this mounts your new copy of /usr right over the old one; the original files still exist and occupy space in /, but are now hidden. Only the new copies (on the former /holding partition) are seen and used by the system. The originals are still there, should you need to revert to them. telinit 5 Then see if everything still works. If it does, telinit 1 umount /usr This unhides the original files in the old /usr. rm -rf /usr/* This removes the old copies of the original /usr files, leaving the /usr directory empty, and now merely a mount point. mount /usr telinit 5 holding is slightly smaller than /, but I could make a new partition, say 10GB and then do something similar. Your /holding partition is already an excellent size for /usr - you don't need 10G for that. And once /usr is out of /, you'll have plenty of room there, too. I'd save any new partitions for data or other distros; /usr doesn't grow all that much, really - I'll bet that it's about 4G now, and that's a fairly fully loaded /usr. Just MHO. -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC Gray Screen on Mandrake 9.1
thanks, but that still doesn't work. Something tells me that I need to do a fresh install of LM9.1 instead of upgrading from LM9.0 to LM9.1. I just can't think of anything else that could be the problem. JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Here's my .vnc/xstartup file. It launches KDE in the background #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc KDE -Original Message- From: Sevatio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] VNC Gray Screen on Mandrake 9.1 How do I get my vncserver on Mandrake 9.1 to display something other than a gray screen with an x mouse cursor? I've already done the qt3 updates. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:56 am, Bill Mullen wrote: looking at this more closely, what I would do is: This is /exactly/ how I'd do it as well. I'll just expand on a few details of Jack's excellent methodology, for clarity's sake. telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ umount /holding vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. mount /usr Note that this mounts your new copy of /usr right over the old one; the original files still exist and occupy space in /, but are now hidden. Only the new copies (on the former /holding partition) are seen and used by the system. The originals are still there, should you need to revert to them. telinit 5 Then see if everything still works. If it does, telinit 1 umount /usr This unhides the original files in the old /usr. rm -rf /usr/* This removes the old copies of the original /usr files, leaving the /usr directory empty, and now merely a mount point. mount /usr telinit 5 holding is slightly smaller than /, but I could make a new partition, say 10GB and then do something similar. Your /holding partition is already an excellent size for /usr - you don't need 10G for that. And once /usr is out of /, you'll have plenty of room there, too. I'd save any new partitions for data or other distros; /usr doesn't grow all that much, really - I'll bet that it's about 4G now, and that's a fairly fully loaded /usr. Just MHO. Thanks for the clarification, Bill. Forget the remark about the 10G size - it was too early in the morning for the grey cells to be fully operational g I cleared out everything I was certain I didn't need, to avoid that 95% full being even high, giving me time to work out a strategy. /usr is 1.7G at the moment, so that would give me around 2G free space on /, which should be enough, I think. I like this solution, because it seems to me that I get the chance to test everything out for a day or more before having to actually remove anything. If I understand you, when I mount the new /usr, the directory /usr under / will be ignored (after a reboot?). But then when I remove the /usr directory, the system will temporarily not be able to see any /usr until I remount the new one. Right? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: If I understand you, when I mount the new /usr, the directory /usr under / will be ignored (after a reboot?). But then when I remove the /usr directory, the system will temporarily not be able to see any /usr until I remount the new one. Right? No rebooting necessary (remember, you did a telinit 1 to start off with, and are in single-user mode here). Once you mount the new /usr partition over the old /usr directory, the files which are still in that directory are no longer visible to the system. As Jack said, you would then issue telinit 5 to return to run level 5 and test everything out. When you're ready to delete the old files, you just return to run level 1 (where /usr is not in use, when you're merely sitting at the bash prompt), unmount the new /usr partition, clean out the old /usr dir that was beneath it, and remount the new /usr. You will then return, once and for all, to run level 5 with telinit 5. And yes, for a second or two there you will have no /usr mounted, but that's not a problem at all if you follow those steps exactly as Jack wrote them; the only command you're running with an empty /usr directory is mount, and it lives in /bin. :) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks, Bill. I'm a belt, braces and piece of string person. I do need to have it spelled out really clearly if I feel that there's risk involved g I'd never make a gambler. Good! The better sysadmins rarely gamble, if they can help it. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 12:12 pm, Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: If I understand you, when I mount the new /usr, the directory /usr under / will be ignored (after a reboot?). But then when I remove the /usr directory, the system will temporarily not be able to see any /usr until I remount the new one. Right? No rebooting necessary (remember, you did a telinit 1 to start off with, and are in single-user mode here). Once you mount the new /usr partition over the old /usr directory, the files which are still in that directory are no longer visible to the system. As Jack said, you would then issue telinit 5 to return to run level 5 and test everything out. When you're ready to delete the old files, you just return to run level 1 (where /usr is not in use, when you're merely sitting at the bash prompt), unmount the new /usr partition, clean out the old /usr dir that was beneath it, and remount the new /usr. You will then return, once and for all, to run level 5 with telinit 5. And yes, for a second or two there you will have no /usr mounted, but that's not a problem at all if you follow those steps exactly as Jack wrote them; the only command you're running with an empty /usr directory is mount, and it lives in /bin. :) Thanks, Bill. I'm a belt, braces and piece of string person. I do need to have it spelled out really clearly if I feel that there's risk involved g I'd never make a gambler. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space
Anne, is var/ on / ? Why i ask, is because var is a culprit likely to grow if not treated right. - If you turn your comp off overnight you need anacron installed to clean out /var/log/ files else they just keep on growing like topsy. (cron runs logrotate at about 4am IIRC). - apache html files may be stored there (depends on OS version). A site growing as you add html and its pics means var grows. - mail and news may be stored in var/ IMHO usr/ grows very slowly... ie only as you install new software. On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:37:21 -0400 (EDT) Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks, Bill. I'm a belt, braces and piece of string person. I do need to have it spelled out really clearly if I feel that there's risk involved g I'd never make a gambler. Good! The better sysadmins rarely gamble, if they can help it. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley -- Michael Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space
Hi, Michael. /var is on /, but it's only 276 MB. I rarely turn the computer off, so the housekeeping is done regularly. Thanks for the thought, though Anne On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:22 pm, Michael Adams wrote: Anne, is var/ on / ? Why i ask, is because var is a culprit likely to grow if not treated right. - If you turn your comp off overnight you need anacron installed to clean out /var/log/ files else they just keep on growing like topsy. (cron runs logrotate at about 4am IIRC). - apache html files may be stored there (depends on OS version). A site growing as you add html and its pics means var grows. - mail and news may be stored in var/ IMHO usr/ grows very slowly... ie only as you install new software. On Wed, 30 Jul 2003 07:37:21 -0400 (EDT) Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks, Bill. I'm a belt, braces and piece of string person. I do need to have it spelled out really clearly if I feel that there's risk involved g I'd never make a gambler. Good! The better sysadmins rarely gamble, if they can help it. ;) -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] partly OT: Soyo + Barton + 8x : boot problem
At 19.31 21/07/2003, you wrote: i have no problem running the mobo at FSB 133 , but at FSB 166 -- which the mobo is advertised to support -- it's not at all reliable. first, it doesn't recognise the CPU in its default setting, but thinks it's a 1900+ running at 1467 MHz ; more seriously, if i try manually setting the FSB to 166 with appropriate other settings, it boots ok 1 - 3 times, then fails to talk to the AGP card: there's a long-short-short beep signalling this then Linux boots invisibly, as i can see hear from the HDD activity fr using Ctl-Alt-Del to reset. Try to check in the manual what that signal means, then ask for replacement :-) Probably it depends on the video card, the mobo could be fine. Have you tried to lower the AGP speed to 4x? (if possible, I once saw a mobo where you could force the agp to run at 2x instead of 4x). You won't notice any performace hit, agp 8x only gives troubles. Olaf Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Mandrake 9.0 and PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD
Does mandrake 9.0 support this card PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD. I Have looked on the seb and could not find any information... James S. Lawson Network Administrator Brown Raysman Millstein Felder Steiner 900 Third Avenue New York, NY 10022 Tel: (212) 895-2679 (@ @) oOO--(_)--OOo- Notice: This message, and any attached file, is intended only for the use of the individual or entity to which it is addressed, and may contain information that is privileged, confidential and exempt from disclosure under applicable law. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any dissemination, distribution or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. Nothing in this e-mail message should be construed as a legal opinion. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by reply e-mail and delete all copies of the original message. Thank you. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba probs again
Richard Bown wrote: Thanks James, log.smbd showed this:- [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(707) smbd version 2.2.7a-security-rollup-fix started. Copyright Andrew Tridgell and the Samba Team 1992-2002 [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] smbd/server.c:main(751) standard input is not a socket, assuming -D option [2003/07/29 19:32:47, 0] lib/util_sock.c:open_socket_in(804) bind failed on port 139 socket_addr = 0.0.0.0. Error = Address already in use the other 2 log files I cant find, probably log.smbmount has'nt been created yet. syslog is just showing the nmbd entry as poster earlier. I've looked in all the other log files and cant see anything related to smbd Not alot to yer teeth into Richard Not sure what your other problems may be but your log is telling you that samba can not bind to port 139. Samba needs to bind the service netbios-ssn to this 139 port. The entry in your log is telling you that the port is already in use. Run a lsof -i :139 to see what service is using this port. This will give you a starting place for troubleshooting. drjung -- J. Craig Woods UNIX Network/System Engineer http://www.trismegistus.net/resume.htm Let him that would move the world, first move himself. -- Socrates Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC Gray Screen on Mandrake 9.1
Why replace the whole OS to fix one relatively minor subsystem? A safer way to the same result might be this one-liner: for i in `rpm -qa | grep vnc`; do rpm -qc $i; done Then go look at the files that are listed -- particularly looking for *.rpmnew or *.~. Another option is to urpme all your vnc packages, rename or delete any vnc config in /etc or your home directory, then urpmi the vnc packages you want. Jack On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:50, Sevatio wrote: thanks, but that still doesn't work. Something tells me that I need to do a fresh install of LM9.1 instead of upgrading from LM9.0 to LM9.1. I just can't think of anything else that could be the problem. JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Here's my .vnc/xstartup file. It launches KDE in the background #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc KDE -Original Message- From: Sevatio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] VNC Gray Screen on Mandrake 9.1 How do I get my vncserver on Mandrake 9.1 to display something other than a gray screen with an x mouse cursor? I've already done the qt3 updates. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba probs again
Thanks everyone who offered help and assistance. I've found the reason why smbd would'nt Vmware also want to be a smb server the reason nmbd was stuck in a loop Jul 30 09:23:23 gb7tf nmbd[5254]: [2003/07/30 09:23:23, 0] libsmb/nmblib.c:send_udp(756) Jul 30 09:23:23 gb7tf nmbd[5254]: Packet send failed to 192.168.1.255(138) ERR NO=Operation not permitted This believe or not was shorewall, added the rule to accept all from local to fw and it worked. Now I've recently moved from bastille to shorewall, the later being slightly easier to setup. BUT there is a major difference between them. If you stop bastille it leaves the system open, shorewall dos'nt seem to do this.. There is still 1 problem left, I cant set the samba password smbpasswd has root RW, and the file is there.But if I try to change it this happens [EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# smbpasswd richard New SMB password: Retype new SMB password: getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no terminating :) Failed to find entry for user richard. Failed to modify password entry for user richard ideas /pointers pleeease Thanks Richard Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (OT) Linux World
Are you saying you are going? . Just curious. Richard --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Yes this is sorta off topic... but, it's also the only way I can ask. Who here is going to be going to Linux World in San Fran in a couple of weeks? Just curious. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba probs again
From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# smbpasswd richard
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no terminating :)
Failed to find entry for user richard.
Failed to modify password entry for user richard
ideas /pointers pleeease
You need -a for add ('man smbpasswd' is your frien)
So:
#smbpasswd -a richard
will do what you want...
Thomas
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Re: [expert] Making space
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 04:37, Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: Thanks, Bill. I'm a belt, braces and piece of string person. I do need to have it spelled out really clearly if I feel that there's risk involved g I'd never make a gambler. Good! The better sysadmins rarely gamble, if they can help it. ;) thanks for finishing the thought train there Bill, I'm on the West Coast and just getting online. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] samba probs again
Thanks ,
I've been hammering the keyboard all day,
That got the login on the host machine from the host machine OK.;
Win98 sitting on win4lin can see the host, and the host can see the
virtual win98 machine, but their both refusing acess both ways.
Time to check the firewall again maybe,,
Richard
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 17:01, Thomas Backlund wrote:
From: Richard Bown [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[...]
[EMAIL PROTECTED] samba]# smbpasswd richard
New SMB password:
Retype new SMB password:
getsmbfilepwent: malformed password entry (no terminating :)
Failed to find entry for user richard.
Failed to modify password entry for user richard
ideas /pointers pleeease
You need -a for add ('man smbpasswd' is your frien)
So:
#smbpasswd -a richard
will do what you want...
Thomas
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Re: [expert] VNC Gray Screen on Mandrake 9.1
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 04:50, Sevatio wrote: thanks, but that still doesn't work. Something tells me that I need to do a fresh install of LM9.1 instead of upgrading from LM9.0 to LM9.1. I just can't think of anything else that could be the problem. Sorry if this sounds harsh -- I don't mean it to be. Replacing the OS because you can't get a program to work is terribly Microsoftish. The fact that you can get VNC to show a gray screen means that VNC is not at fault, your Window Manager is (or at least how you're starting the WM is). Try running something simple, such as an xterm, from withing the vncstartup. Then, try using startkde instead. Post your error logs, config files, etc.. JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Here's my .vnc/xstartup file. It launches KDE in the background #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc KDE -Original Message- From: Sevatio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] VNC Gray Screen on Mandrake 9.1 How do I get my vncserver on Mandrake 9.1 to display something other than a gray screen with an x mouse cursor? I've already done the qt3 updates. Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] partly OT: Soyo + Barton + 8x : boot problem
030730 Olaf Marzocchi wrote: At 19.31 21/07/2003, you wrote: i have no problem running the mobo at FSB 133 , but at FSB 166 -- which the mobo is advertised to support -- it's not at all reliable. first, it doesn't recognise the CPU in its default setting, but thinks it's a 1900+ running at 1467 MHz ; more seriously, if i try manually setting the FSB to 166 with appropriate other settings, it boots ok 1 - 3 times, then fails to talk to the AGP card: there's long-short-short beep signalling this, then Linux boots invisibly, as i can see hear from the HDD activity fr using Ctl-Alt-Del to reset. Try to check in the manual what that signal means, then ask for replacement the manual says it means what i say it signals just above (puzzled look). Have you tried to lower the AGP speed to 4x? I once saw a mobo where you could force the agp to run at 2x instead of 4x. You won't notice any performace hit, agp 8x only gives troubles. nocando with this mobo, but i tried another card which is 4x the problem disappeared. it's almost impossible to find a new 4x card here anyway the difference seems to be in the chip ( MX440 a/a MX400 ). Probably it depends on the video card, the mobo could be fine. no, it's the mobo, which is currently at the makers being examined. the problem is the combination of mobo + Barton CPU + MX440 graphics card. i swapped a couple of e-mails with Soyo tech support their final advice was send it in for testing. Greg Meyer has been very helpful pointed out 2 newsgroup reports of similar problems, 1 of which had been solved by attention from Soyo. i'll report the result when i get the mobo back next week or so. -- ,, SUPPORT ___//___, Philip Webb : [EMAIL PROTECTED] ELECTRIC /] [] [] [] [] []| Centre for Urban Community Studies TRANSIT`-O--O---' University of Toronto Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 09:55 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Does mandrake 9.0 support this card PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD. I Have looked on the seb and could not find any information... I cannot speak for the 133TX2, but I used a 100TX2 successsfully for quite some time. Same here, the 100TX2 works without pbm in 9.0 and 9.1 -- Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
RE: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD
Thanks for the answer. With out recompiling the kernel. -Original Message- From: Greg Meyer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, July 30, 2003 2:20 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD On Wednesday 30 July 2003 09:55 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Does mandrake 9.0 support this card PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD. I Have looked on the seb and could not find any information... I cannot speak for the 133TX2, but I used a 100TX2 successsfully for quite some time. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kcheckers
On Tue, 2003-07-29 at 10:47, Jack Coates wrote: anyone able to get this to compile on MDK 9.1? finally got a chance to look at this again and found that someone put an RPM up -- had to install it with --nodeps, but it works. [EMAIL PROTECTED] local]# rpm -qi kcheckers Name: kcheckersRelocations: (not relocateable) Version : 0.4 Vendor: ALT Linux Team Release : alt1 Build Date: Wed 15 Jan 2003 11:40:33 AM PST Install date: Wed 30 Jul 2003 10:12:40 AM PDT Build Host: mash.office.altlinux.ru Group : Games/Boards Source RPM: kcheckers-0.4-alt1.src.rpm Size: 211931 License: GPL Packager: Sergey V Turchin [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL : http://kcheckers.osdn.org.ua Summary : Classic boardgame - checkers Description : Tish is classic boardgame checkers. This game is also known as draughts. -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 09:55 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Does mandrake 9.0 support this card PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD. I Have looked on the seb and could not find any information... I cannot speak for the 133TX2, but I used a 100TX2 successsfully for quite some time. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (OT) Linux World
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:42, Tru64 User wrote: Are you saying you are going? . Just curious. yep gone every year starting in 98 . thought if enough of us were going to be there we could commandeer a Mandrake table for the express purpose of telling all kinds of horror stories and tall tails *grin*. James Richard --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Yes this is sorta off topic... but, it's also the only way I can ask. Who here is going to be going to Linux World in San Fran in a couple of weeks? Just curious. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] VNC Gray Screen on Mandrake 9.1
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 01:50, Sevatio wrote: thanks, but that still doesn't work. Something tells me that I need to do a fresh install of LM9.1 instead of upgrading from LM9.0 to LM9.1. I just can't think of anything else that could be the problem. Sevatio, Can you send a list via rpm -qa | grep kde and rpm -qa | grep qt to the list... I'd like to compare what you have to what I've had working. James JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: Here's my .vnc/xstartup file. It launches KDE in the background #!/bin/sh # Mandrake Linux VNC session startup script exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc KDE -Original Message- From: Sevatio [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2003 2:07 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [expert] VNC Gray Screen on Mandrake 9.1 How do I get my vncserver on Mandrake 9.1 to display something other than a gray screen with an x mouse cursor? I've already done the qt3 updates. __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
I've just installed ML 9.1 on a clean system, and discovered that it keeps the same graphic in place during the boot sequence that is there when lilo is letting you pick which system you want to boot. I don't mind the graphic around that, but I much prefer a boot up window (shows the various ok messages on just a plain-old text window). I can't seem to find where I can turn that off so that it uses plain-old text. Also, the X system seems to default to using mdkKDM as the window manager at login, and I want to use the KDM window manager so that things like the clock will actually show up in the login window when I've selected the clock from the control panel under login preferences. I can't seem to remember how I did it on my already-set up machine. :-) Can someone point me in the right direction, please? Thanks! --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space - problems
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:56 am, Bill Mullen wrote: On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 1:57 am, Jack Coates wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030729 09:20]: I was shocked to realise that my / is running out of space. My current situation is FilesystemSize Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/hde7 5.9G 5.3G 288M 95% / /dev/hde5 5.9G 2.7G 3.3G 46% /Data /dev/hde6 5.7G 452M 5.3G 8% /Graphics /dev/hde81012M 7.7M 953M 1% /boot /dev/hde105.8G 33M 5.5G 1% /holding /dev/hde9 9.7G 4.5G 5.3G 47% /home /dev/hdf1 5.3G 3.3G 1.8G 65% /mnt/Mdk9_0 /dev/hdf6 3.9G 2.2G 1.7G 57% /mnt/OldData /dev/hdf7 6.7G 5.0G 1.7G 75% /mnt/OldHome /dev/hde1 3.9G 1.8G 2.2G 46% /mnt/windows ... looking at this more closely, what I would do is: This is /exactly/ how I'd do it as well. I'll just expand on a few details of Jack's excellent methodology, for clarity's sake. telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? umount /holding vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. I can change /holding to /usr, but the old /usr is not a partition, but a directory. Do I just mv /usr /holding? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 7:50 pm, Frederic Soulier wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 09:55 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Does mandrake 9.0 support this card PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD. I Have looked on the seb and could not find any information... I cannot speak for the 133TX2, but I used a 100TX2 successsfully for quite some time. Same here, the 100TX2 works without pbm in 9.0 and 9.1 Could one of you put that on the HardwareCompatibility pages? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space - problems
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:27, Anne Wilson wrote: ... telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? Check /root/.bash_history -- did you miss the slash between usr and *? umount /holding vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. I can change /holding to /usr, but the old /usr is not a partition, but a directory. Do I just mv /usr /holding? Anne risky to do a mv instead of cp. Also, when you finished mounting /dev/hde10 you'd end up with /usr/usr, which won't work. __ -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 21:29, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 7:50 pm, Frederic Soulier wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:20, Greg Meyer wrote: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 09:55 am, Lawson, Jim wrote: Does mandrake 9.0 support this card PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD. I Have looked on the seb and could not find any information... I cannot speak for the 133TX2, but I used a 100TX2 successsfully for quite some time. Same here, the 100TX2 works without pbm in 9.0 and 9.1 Could one of you put that on the HardwareCompatibility pages? http://mandrake.vmlinuz.ca/bin/view/Main/HardwareCompatibility Done. -- Frederic Soulier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space - problems
Hello Anne, telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? This is strange, you shold have all the content of /usr copied inside /holding instead. Are you sure you did cp -a /usr/* /holding/ and not cp -a /usr/ /holding/ ? umount /holding vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. I can change /holding to /usr, but the old /usr is not a partition, but a directory. Do I just mv /usr /holding? No no, don't mv, you would remove the original content of /usr, with no way back if something goes wrong. If /usr is jusr a directory, mounting a partition on it will hide its original content. This is what you want. So just mount on /ust the partition that was previously on /holding HTH, Stephane -- Stephane Junique [EMAIL PROTECTED] Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space - problems
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 9:49 pm, Jack Coates wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 13:27, Anne Wilson wrote: ... telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? Check /root/.bash_history -- did you miss the slash between usr and *? I don't think I did - I checked it before hitting enter, but what I typed after telinit 1 doesn't show up in root's bash history. umount /holding vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. I can change /holding to /usr, but the old /usr is not a partition, but a directory. Do I just mv /usr /holding? Anne risky to do a mv instead of cp. Also, when you finished mounting /dev/hde10 you'd end up with /usr/usr, which won't work. Oops - I think I've been unclear again. I meant, once I have everything in the right place in the new /usr, I need to rename the old /usr so that the poor system doesn't get its knickers in a twist. It's at that point that I thought I should use mv. Am I wrong? Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] Install 9.1 from HD.IMG Boot
With 9.0 and previous, I extracted the contents of the iso's to one partition and installed from there. I since did a RedHat hd install, and it only wanted to know the location of the iso files. That was very convenient, so on this 9.1 install, I didn't extract the iso contents first. When this install started, it only asked the location and name of one iso. I proceeded anyway, thinking the installer must be smart enough to find the other two co-located iso's when it needed them. Apparently not. I get about 1/3 through installing packages, and every subsequent package generates a generic error installing message and wants to know if I want to continue anyway. I clicked yes to go on anyway a couple dozen times now and see no improvement. It makes me think this installer to too dumb to use the #2 #3 iso files to keep on going. Am I wrong? Must I extract all iso contents the old fashioned way in order to get a full install? -- Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry. Ephesians 4:26 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] MSI K7D Master
Hi , Here I am again, with some news ! You were right, Todd, it's a DMA problem. Booting with ide=nodma solve it. What puzzles me is that 1) the WD drive works fine with my MSI motherboard (Nforce2 chipset) and 2) The Fujitsi and the old IBM disk also have the problem with the bi-proc. mobo. And you were right too concerning the performance without DMA. I copied the Mandrake DVD to the disk to see if the system remained stable. Stable it was, but it was almost unusable (100% CPU used for copying) and it took an awful long time... I'm going to order a Maxtor drive (I need one more disk anyway) and see what happens. I hope I can use DMA one way or another... Thank you so much for your help, Todd and Larry ! Regards, Stephane Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space - problems
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: * Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030730 14:53]: telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? That SHOULD have put everything under /usr into /holding ... but if you see /holding/usr/lots of stuff you can do: mv /holding/usr/* /holding/ Then you should be able to remove /holding/usr because it should be empty: rmdir /holding/usr OK - done that, and everything looks fine. umount /holding vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. I can change /holding to /usr, but the old /usr is not a partition, but a directory. Do I just mv /usr /holding? If at this point, you have identical directories/files under /usr and under /holding, and /holding is a partition, then you won't need to use mv to change /holding to /usr ... you'll do that by changing the mount points in /etc/fstab. What makes this a little tricky is that when you reboot, you'll have the same stuff in the new /usr as in what will be a kind of phantom /usr that was mounted under / ... it's like what happens if you copy something into /mnt/floppy while there is no floppy disk mounted. When you mount the floppy, the stuff that was there will appear to be gone, replaced by whatever is on the floppy. Then when you unmount the floppy, the stuff that was there before you mounted the floppy will appear. I think it means that when you explicitly mount something, it takes precedence over an existing link, so if the new /usr works, you'll have to find a way to unmount the /usr partition, delete what is in the /usr partition under / (and probably that /usr directory also) and then remount your partition that holds the stuff from /usr. Since by this time the new /usr will be mounted, are you saying that I won't be able to see the original /usr? If it's still there as a directory, can't I just delete the directory once I'm sure everything is ok? This is why I like using Knoppix ... it's easier for me to understand and be sure of what is going on with the partitions when they're all mounted as /mnt/hda5, /mnt/hda6, etc. Hope this made it clearer rather than murkier ;-) I'm getting there g thanks to you all. Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space - problems
* Anne Wilson [EMAIL PROTECTED] [030730 14:53]: telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? That SHOULD have put everything under /usr into /holding ... but if you see /holding/usr/lots of stuff you can do: mv /holding/usr/* /holding/ Then you should be able to remove /holding/usr because it should be empty: rmdir /holding/usr umount /holding vi /etc/fstab and change /holding to /usr and vice versa. I can change /holding to /usr, but the old /usr is not a partition, but a directory. Do I just mv /usr /holding? If at this point, you have identical directories/files under /usr and under /holding, and /holding is a partition, then you won't need to use mv to change /holding to /usr ... you'll do that by changing the mount points in /etc/fstab. What makes this a little tricky is that when you reboot, you'll have the same stuff in the new /usr as in what will be a kind of phantom /usr that was mounted under / ... it's like what happens if you copy something into /mnt/floppy while there is no floppy disk mounted. When you mount the floppy, the stuff that was there will appear to be gone, replaced by whatever is on the floppy. Then when you unmount the floppy, the stuff that was there before you mounted the floppy will appear. I think it means that when you explicitly mount something, it takes precedence over an existing link, so if the new /usr works, you'll have to find a way to unmount the /usr partition, delete what is in the /usr partition under / (and probably that /usr directory also) and then remount your partition that holds the stuff from /usr. This is why I like using Knoppix ... it's easier for me to understand and be sure of what is going on with the partitions when they're all mounted as /mnt/hda5, /mnt/hda6, etc. Hope this made it clearer rather than murkier ;-) -- Jan Wilson, SysAdmin _/*]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Corozal Junior College | |:' corozal.com corozal.bz Corozal Town, Belize | /' chetumal.com linux.bz Reg. Linux user #151611 |_/ Network, PHP, Perl, HTML Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 04:17 pm, David Guntner wrote: I've just installed ML 9.1 on a clean system, and discovered that it keeps the same graphic in place during the boot sequence that is there when lilo is letting you pick which system you want to boot. I don't mind the graphic around that, but I much prefer a boot up window (shows the various ok messages on just a plain-old text window). I can't seem to find where I can turn that off so that it uses plain-old text. Just uninstall the bootsplash package urpme bootsplash Also, the X system seems to default to using mdkKDM as the window manager at login, and I want to use the KDM window manager so that things like the clock will actually show up in the login window when I've selected the clock from the control panel under login preferences. I can't seem to remember how I did it on my already-set up machine. :-) Can someone point me in the right direction, please? urpme mdkkdm urpmi kdebase-kdm -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space - problems
On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:15 pm, Stephane Junique wrote: Hello Anne, telinit 1 cp -a /usr/* /holding/ I did this, but /usr appears as a subdirectory of /holding. What can I do about this? This is strange, you shold have all the content of /usr copied inside /holding instead. Are you sure you did cp -a /usr/* /holding/ and not cp -a /usr/ /holding/ ? Absolutely sure. If /usr is jusr a directory, mounting a partition on it will hide its original content. This is what you want. So just mount on /ust the partition that was previously on /holding Thanks Anne Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Install 9.1 from HD.IMG Boot
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 05:28 pm, Felix Miata wrote: With 9.0 and previous, I extracted the contents of the iso's to one partition and installed from there. I since did a RedHat hd install, and it only wanted to know the location of the iso files. That was very convenient, so on this 9.1 install, I didn't extract the iso contents first. When this install started, it only asked the location and name of one iso. I proceeded anyway, thinking the installer must be smart enough to find the other two co-located iso's when it needed them. Apparently not. I get about 1/3 through installing packages, and every subsequent package generates a generic error installing message and wants to know if I want to continue anyway. I clicked yes to go on anyway a couple dozen times now and see no improvement. It makes me think this installer to too dumb to use the #2 #3 iso files to keep on going. Am I wrong? Must I extract all iso contents the old fashioned way in order to get a full install? Using this method right now, yes, but I do recall a conversation on cooker ML where it was discussed to change this. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.0 and PROMISE ULTRA133TX2 CONTROLLER CARD
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 02:46 pm, Lawson, Jim wrote: Thanks for the answer. With out recompiling the kernel. Yes. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space - problems
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 14:10, Anne Wilson wrote: ... risky to do a mv instead of cp. Also, when you finished mounting /dev/hde10 you'd end up with /usr/usr, which won't work. Oops - I think I've been unclear again. I meant, once I have everything in the right place in the new /usr, I need to rename the old /usr so that the poor system doesn't get its knickers in a twist. It's at that point that I thought I should use mv. Am I wrong? Anne Ah. Actually, this is kind of a mind bender, so it might be useful to cd /tmp and make a few directories and files to test with so you can be comfortable that it really works like this. When you mount a partition at a mount point, the old contents of that mountpoint are not disturbed. In other words, the old /usr will still be there, you just won't be able to use it until you've umount'ed /dev/hde10. Basically, we think of a directory as a folder containing pieces of paper which are files, but in real life it's more like a single piece of paper with a list of files written on it. This mount trick is like laying another piece of paper with another list of files on top of the first one. The actual files in either directory are scattered willy-nilly all over the partition and all a directory does is provide pointers on where to find them. Think about this a while longer and symlinks will start to make a lot more sense too :-) HTH, -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Mandrake 9.1 on Dell Inspiron 5150
Viestissä Keskiviikko 30 Heinäkuu 2003 23:23, Eric Fesler kirjoitti: Hi, I just installed Mandrake 9.1 on a Dell Inspiron 9.1 and I've got several issues: I'm using the kernel linux-2.4.21-0.13mdkenterprise 1°) The harddisk is really slow : hdparm shows a transfer rate of 3.5Mb/s I tried to activate the dma using the command: hdparm -c1d1 /dev/hdc and I got the following output: /dev/hdc: setting 32-bit IO_support flag to 1 setting using_dma to 1 (on) HDIO_SET_DMA failed: Operation not permitted IO_support = 1 (32-bit) using_dma= 0 (off) 2°) If I switch ACPI on in lilo.conf, the PC just freeze after having loaded the kernel I trued to recompile without APM and without APIC but then the PC reboot after having loaded the kernel Any ideas how I can solve those issues. Issue 1 is the most important up to now. get the latest security update kernel: linux-2.4.21-0.25mdkenterprise and try again ;-) Thomas Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
Am Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2003 00:16 schrieb Greg Meyer: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 04:17 pm, David Guntner wrote: I've just installed ML 9.1 on a clean system, and discovered that it keeps the same graphic in place during the boot sequence that is there when lilo is letting you pick which system you want to boot. I don't mind the graphic around that, but I much prefer a boot up window (shows the various ok messages on just a plain-old text window). I can't seem to find where I can turn that off so that it uses plain-old text. Just uninstall the bootsplash package urpme bootsplash Also, the X system seems to default to using mdkKDM as the window manager at login, and I want to use the KDM window manager so that things like the clock will actually show up in the login window when I've selected the clock from the control panel under login preferences. I can't seem to remember how I did it on my already-set up machine. :-) Can someone point me in the right direction, please? urpme mdkkdm urpmi kdebase-kdm Wow what radical. Not to recommend I think. For the first: drakboot = using theme for console, take the cross out For the second: drakedm = choose the one you wish Both should be reachable over MCC Steffen Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 16:20, Steffen Barszus wrote: Am Donnerstag, 31. Juli 2003 00:16 schrieb Greg Meyer: On Wednesday 30 July 2003 04:17 pm, David Guntner wrote: I've just installed ML 9.1 on a clean system, and discovered that it keeps the same graphic in place during the boot sequence that is there when lilo is letting you pick which system you want to boot. I don't mind the graphic around that, but I much prefer a boot up window (shows the various ok messages on just a plain-old text window). I can't seem to find where I can turn that off so that it uses plain-old text. Just uninstall the bootsplash package urpme bootsplash Also, the X system seems to default to using mdkKDM as the window manager at login, and I want to use the KDM window manager so that things like the clock will actually show up in the login window when I've selected the clock from the control panel under login preferences. I can't seem to remember how I did it on my already-set up machine. :-) Can someone point me in the right direction, please? urpme mdkkdm urpmi kdebase-kdm Wow what radical. Not to recommend I think. For the first: drakboot = using theme for console, take the cross out For the second: drakedm = choose the one you wish Both should be reachable over MCC Steffen or in your lilo.conf vga=[some number] changed to vga=normal James __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] 9.1 Install - Failed to Check Filesystem /dev/hda1
Do you want to repair the errors? (beware you can lose data) This is a non-native type 0x07 filesystem. Why does the installer think /dev/hda1 needs checking? -- Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry. Ephesians 4:26 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
[expert] bug #82 in Samba 2.2.8 RPMS?
Anbody know how I can find out if I've got the patch for this? Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] Making space - problems
On Wed, 30 Jul 2003, Anne Wilson wrote: On Wednesday 30 Jul 2003 10:23 pm, Jan Wilson wrote: I think it means that when you explicitly mount something, it takes precedence over an existing link, so if the new /usr works, you'll have to find a way to unmount the /usr partition, delete what is in the /usr partition under / (and probably that /usr directory also) and then remount your partition that holds the stuff from /usr. Since by this time the new /usr will be mounted, are you saying that I won't be able to see the original /usr? If it's still there as a directory, can't I just delete the directory once I'm sure everything is ok? Sorry to vanish on you, had to get some sleep. ;) Jan is incorrect only in that you do not delete the old /usr *directory* but only its contents - you still need the empty directory to serve as the mount point for the partition that now contains the /usr files. This is the same principle that is at work when you find that you cannot mount a floppy as /mnt/floppy if the /mnt/floppy directory does not already exist. That's why Jack's instructions called for unmounting the new /usr partition, then deleting the contents of the old /usr directory (but not the directory itself), then remounting the /usr partition. You'll recall that this is done in single-user mode, where nothing in /usr is actively in use (so unmounting/remounting it is therefore possible). -- Bill Mullen [EMAIL PROTECTED] MA, USA RLU #270075 MDK 8.1 9.0 There are two kinds of people in the world, those who believe there are two kinds of people in the world and those who don't. - Robert Benchley Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kcheckers
I had to edit the Makefile and specify the location of $(QTDIR), then specify that qmake lives in $(QTDIR)/bin before make qmake would succeed. After doing that, make fails: I first tried it and couldn't make it work. Then I remembered having to set QTDIR first (/usr/lib/qt3) and then it went all the way through. I was surprised there was no ./configure present. At any rate I'll go install it. su - root well - keep in mind that the 'su' makes a new environment, so you need to reset QTDIR again. It's a pretty simple install, only two files. pdn.cpp:2:19: qfile.h: No such file or directory In file included from pdn.cpp:5: pdn.h:5:25: qstringlist.h: No such file or directory Well, urpmf /usr/include/qstringlist.h - if set up. Maybe you left out a development rpm. It may not live in /usr/include precisely. Actually, here it is part of /usr/lib/qt3/include, and inside qt3-devel. 'locate qfile.h' shows it also in /usr/lib/qt3 /include, not in /usr/include. On some systems, it would be symlinked to /usr/include/qt or something. I noticed that a binary is included, but it fails to run because Mandrake doesn't use the same naming convention as the developer's Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kcheckers
finally got a chance to look at this again and found that someone put an RPM up -- had to install it with --nodeps, but it works. That's neat. I already compiled it though :). Anyway, it would be nice to have an rpm for gtkatlantic and play some Monopoly on the net :). I've been successful at compiling but some others need RPMs. But I haven't tried to make an rpm in a very long time :(. It's becoming ever more popular. Jack Coates David E. Fox Thanks for letting me [EMAIL PROTECTED]change magnetic patterns [EMAIL PROTECTED] on your hard disk. --- Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 07:44 pm, James Sparenberg wrote: or in your lilo.conf vga=[some number] changed to vga=normal What I like about the bootsplash removal, is that I can still use the framebuffer for my console display, getting more than 80x25 text resolution. If you just use vga=normal, console's display at 80x25 text, but by removing, I can leave vga=791 and display my console's using the frambuffer and get more on the screen. -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 07:20 pm, Steffen Barszus wrote: urpme bootsplash ... urpme mdkkdm urpmi kdebase-kdm Wow what radical. Not to recommend I think. For the first: drakboot = using theme for console, take the cross out For the second: drakedm = choose the one you wish Both should be reachable over MCC c'mon Steffen, this is the expert list. If it had been the newbie list, your answer is correct, but since experts don't use the gui, I think my way is more apropos. :p -- /g Outside of a dog, a man's best friend is a book, inside a dog it's too dark to read -Groucho Marx Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
Greg Meyer grabbed a keyboard and wrote: Just uninstall the bootsplash package urpme bootsplash [...] urpme mdkkdm urpmi kdebase-kdm Well, that seems a bit of a brute-force approach, but I guess it will work. :-) --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 16:20, Steffen Barszus wrote: For the first: drakboot = using theme for console, take the cross out For the second: drakedm = choose the one you wish Both should be reachable over MCC or in your lilo.conf vga=[some number] changed to vga=normal Ah! Good catch. :-) I was about to ask him what cross out? Because I couldn't find anything on that menu to uncheck WRT bootsplash. Once you've set vga=normal in lilo.conf and run lilo, those options completely drop out of the drakboot program. --Dave -- David Guntner GEnie: Just say NO! http://www.akaMail.com/pgpkey/davidg or key server for PGP Public key Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] (OT) Linux World
Yeah love to.. Umm it's a little far for me though, here in Australia.. still good luck ;) Cheers Mark On Thu, 2003-07-31 at 05:42, James Sparenberg wrote: On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 08:42, Tru64 User wrote: Are you saying you are going? . Just curious. yep gone every year starting in 98 . thought if enough of us were going to be there we could commandeer a Mandrake table for the express purpose of telling all kinds of horror stories and tall tails *grin*. James Richard --- James Sparenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, Yes this is sorta off topic... but, it's also the only way I can ask. Who here is going to be going to Linux World in San Fran in a couple of weeks? Just curious. James Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com = __ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! SiteBuilder - Free, easy-to-use web site design software http://sitebuilder.yahoo.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Mark Williamson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cyber Essentials Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] kcheckers
On Wed, 2003-07-30 at 19:57, David E Fox wrote: I had to edit the Makefile and specify the location of $(QTDIR), then specify that qmake lives in $(QTDIR)/bin before make qmake would succeed. After doing that, make fails: I first tried it and couldn't make it work. Then I remembered having to set QTDIR first (/usr/lib/qt3) and then it went all the way through. I was surprised there was no ./configure present. At any rate I'll go install it. su - root well - keep in mind that the 'su' makes a new environment, so you need to reset QTDIR again. It's a pretty simple install, only two files. pdn.cpp:2:19: qfile.h: No such file or directory In file included from pdn.cpp:5: pdn.h:5:25: qstringlist.h: No such file or directory Well, urpmf /usr/include/qstringlist.h - if set up. Maybe you left out a development rpm. It may not live in /usr/include precisely. Actually, here it is part of /usr/lib/qt3/include, and inside qt3-devel. 'locate qfile.h' shows it also in /usr/lib/qt3 /include, not in /usr/include. On some systems, it would be symlinked to /usr/include/qt or something. I had libqt3-devel installed which has everything it was looking for -- I probably needed to symlink the whole lot into /usr/lib. I noticed that a binary is included, but it fails to run because Mandrake doesn't use the same naming convention as the developer's __ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Jack Coates Monkeynoodle: A Scientific Venture... Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
On Wednesday 30 July 2003 04:17 pm, David Guntner wrote: I've just installed ML 9.1 on a clean system, and discovered that it keeps the same graphic in place during the boot sequence that is there when lilo is letting you pick which system you want to boot. I don't mind the graphic around that, but I much prefer a boot up window (shows the various ok messages on just a plain-old text window). I can't seem to find where I can turn that off so that it uses plain-old text. Just remove the bootsplash rpm (urpme or the software manager) and then adjust your /etc/lilo.conf file. Mine looks like this: image=/boot/vmlinuz unnecessary stuff deleted vga=791 and don't forget to run (as root/su) /sbin/lilo so the changes are reflected. I much prefer seeing everything that is going on. I even put noquiet in there so I can see some hardware goodies during bootup. :-) HTHs. -- /\ DarkLord \/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
Re: [expert] How to turn off Bootsplash mdkKDM?
David Guntner wrote: James Sparenberg grabbed a keyboard and wrote: or in your lilo.conf vga=[some number] changed to vga=normal Ah! Good catch. :-) I was about to ask him what cross out? Because I couldn't find anything on that menu to uncheck WRT bootsplash. Once you've set vga=normal in lilo.conf and run lilo, those options completely drop out of the drakboot program. What happens to those who never run lilo? I always depend on Grub for boot. No need to run it after changing its boot config file. -- Do not let the sun go down while you are still angry. Ephesians 4:26 NIV Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 Felix Miata *** http://members.ij.net/mrmazda/ Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com
